Principal occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Principal as occupation, 2008 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string PRINCIPAL. The other is the 2008 federal election cycle. The match is $2,907,375, built from 3,002 contributions and 1,606 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. 2008 is a presidential-year FEC window. 3,002 contributions from 1,606 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. PRINCIPAL is an ambiguous one-word title: school leader, firm owner, or investment principal can share the same string. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL and MANAGING PRINCIPAL, if typed in full, are other keys. The FEC field does not split those uses. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,907,375. FEC individual receipts are not USAspending.gov awards; this page does not treat campaign gifts as federal spending.

6.7% of $43,606,592 is $2,907,375. That arithmetic uses only the occupation total and the cycle total in this packet. It is not a forecast and not a party split. Recipient committees may be anywhere; cycle is the FEC even-year window, not the donor’s state.

PRINCIPAL is not a sibling title

Principal donations is the occupation hub: $43,606,592 ($43.6 million) across cycles from filers who typed PRINCIPAL. Sibling strings (SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL OWNER, and MANAGING PRINCIPAL) are not merged here. The occupation total is not a school-principal census, a firm-ownership roll, or a merge with those longer titles.

The 2008 cycle filter on Principal receipts

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Principal. $2,907,375 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

3,002 contributions from 1,606 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $968; mean per donor about $1,810. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,907,375.

What the Principal–2008 join is not

Matching Principal with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Principal donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a school-principal census, a firm-ownership roll, or a merge with those longer titles.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PRINCIPAL is an ambiguous one-word title: school leader, firm owner, or investment principal can share the same string. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL and MANAGING PRINCIPAL, if typed in full, are other keys. The FEC field does not split those uses. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $2,907,375 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Principal and 2008 tables

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Principal. All occupations places PRINCIPAL beside other titles without merging sibling strings (SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL OWNER, and MANAGING PRINCIPAL). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,907,375 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Principal dollars ($43,606,592). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,907,375, 3,002 contributions, 1,606 donors, 6.7% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Principal 2008 as a dollar-share slice

2008 accounts for 6.7% of the Principal occupation total ($2,907,375 of $43,606,592). Most Principal-coded dollars sit in other FEC cycles. $2.9 million is the same fact as $2,907,375 rounded to one decimal million, not a second extract. Do not add SCHOOL PRINCIPAL dollars into $2,907,375.

Researchers who need employer text or recipient committees should leave this join and open the Principal donations table. The 2008 cycle page is the even-year inventory. FEC.gov remains the controlling filing if extracts diverge.

Questions

How much did Principal-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Principal grouping’s 2008 cell is $2,907,375 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,002 contributions and 1,606 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $43,606,592 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Principal mean a school principal?

Not necessarily. PRINCIPAL is the occupation string as typed. FEC aggregates do not encode school versus firm uses. The 2008 cycle filter on Principal is $2,907,375, 3,002 contributions, and 1,606 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $43,606,592. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Principal FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.7%. $2,907,375 divided by $43,606,592 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 93.3% ($40,699,217) on the occupation hub. See the Principal occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Principal 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $2,907,375 is itemized receipts tagged PRINCIPAL in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.